What are you reading whilst smoking (other than This Pipe Life)

mseddon · July 2017

I'm always looking for something new to read and thought there might be similar interests in this community!

mseddon · July 2017

For me right now, Elizabeth: The Struggle for the Throne, by David Starkey. About England's Elizabeth I. Just finished Pickett's Charge: A Microhistory of the Final Attack at Gettysburg, July 3, 1863, by George Stewart, a detailed and highly engaging discussion of three hours that changed the tide of the Civil War.

motie2 · July 2017

Re-reading The Valis Trilogy, by Philip K. Dick.

Deadpool57 · July 2017

Re-reading Raider, by Charles W. Sasser

Easily one of my favorite books.

Woodsman · July 2017

Jerry Pournelle and Roland Green Janissaries series. Just starting "Storms of Victory" which is Janissaries III.

mseddon · July 2017

Awesome suggestions! I've rad a little of Dick and of Pournelle. I'll check out those series! I'm alway up for a good Sci-Fi suggestion!

motie2 · July 2017

@Woodsman -- Have you read the Nevins/Pournelle collaboration "The Mote in God's Eye?" I think it's Pournelle's best -- and he's written a few good ones -- and it's one of my Top Five Sci-Fi novels. (I've found it impossible to get it down to Top Three....)

Woodsman · July 2017

Yes, it's a very good one. I met up with Nevin at EerieCon a few years back. Have you read any of Robert Sawyer's books? He reminds me of L Sprague De Camp and Michael Crichton, two other authors that really researched their subject before writing.

motie2 · July 2017

Indeed I have read Sawyer.

While I can't reduce my top five SF novels to three, I do have a number one: Dune.

Fantasy is another story: My number one: For many years it was Tolkien's LOTR, then it was Donaldson's Lord Foul's Bane (first in the Thomas Covenant series), but now it's Rothfuss' The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller chronicles first book.) If you have not encountered it, do so.

motie2 · July 2017

Here's a resource:

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https://www.alibris.com/search/books/subject/Tobacco-pipes

Woodsman · July 2017

I've been reading the Brian Herbert/Kevin J Anderson Novels like "House Atreides", they're not bad and fill in a lot of history of the Classic "Dune".

buflosab · August 2017

Right now I'm reading HUE 1968 by Mark Bowden.one of the bloodiest battles during the Tet offensive in 1968. Marinesand Army units had to do house to house fighting which really hadn't been done since the Korea War.It was pretty much OJT. Mark Bowden does a great job telling not only the stories of the American soldiers but also the North Vietnamese soldiers.He also goes into the civilians caught in the middle.The book is over 600 pages and that's Ok with me.

buflosab · August 2017

Sorry folks ,to fast on posting.Couple of mistakes Marine and Army not Marines and Army,Korean War instead of Korea War.

dbh1950 · August 2017

Always have four or five books in process of reading, Selected Essays, Lectures, and Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson, rereading Thomas Paine's Collected Works, and just began reading Leon Trotsky's History of the Russian Revolution. Just dug out Benjamin Thomas' Abraham Lincoln, was a regular read for many years. I have yet to not find a book that is not compatible with pipe smoking.

Jdalen · August 2017

Usually several at a time. Now:
Abraham Lincoln: A Life (Burlingame)
Black Hawk: The Battle for the Heart of America (Trask)
Confessions of a Pipeman(Schrier)
The Perfect Smoke: Gourmet Pipe Smoking for Relaxation and Reflection (Hanna)

Woodsman · August 2017

"Season of the Spellsong" Alan Dean Foster. One of my favorite authors.

Woodsman · August 2017

Also, re-reading "Into the Out Of" by the same author. You'll never look at the shredded Truck Tire pieces on the side of the highway the same way again.

Londy3 · August 2017

Gonna start reading The Racketeer

mseddon · August 2017

@buflosab
Thanks for the review. I'd been considering that one. Bowden usually does an excellent job of talking to both sides. One of the most chilling lines I remember from Black Hawk Down is from one of the local Somalis, they concluded that Americans weren't willing to die for the cause, and they (the Somalis) were.

PhilosoPiper · August 2017

I am currently working my way through Fyodor Dostoyevsky's: Brothers Karamazov. Dostoyevsky has become one of my favorite writers, he is arguably one of the greatest of all time. I would recommend all of his works.
Once I am done with that I plan on working my way through Oscar Wilde's: A Picture of Dorian Grey.

ghostsofpompeii · August 2017

You guys are just too damn intelligent for your own good. I was reading a Victoria Secret's Catalog. Well, not actually reading it ... but looking at the pictures. Does that count?

motie2 · August 2017

Whatever floats yer boat. I used to get off on some of the the ads in my mom's Sears catalogues.

thebadgerpiper · August 2017

I've been reading The Ultimate Pipe Book by Richard Hacker. Loving it so far, and it's an engaging read.

PappyJoe · August 2017

Last month we found a show on Netflix named "The Last Kingdom". It's historical fiction about the founding of England and includes a lot of Vikings and fighting, etc. Takes place starting around 860 AD. It's based on a book written by Bernard Cornwell. So, of course, I decided I had to look for the book and found there are 10 in the series. While visiting one antique store 3 books in the series - 1st, 3rd and 6th (all first editions) - and bought them. I've read the first one, bought a paperback copy of the 2nd book and read it and am now working on the 3rd.

I read the first 2 books of Games of Thrones and stopped there. I like The Last Kingdom Series better.
Interestingly, the tv series "Vikings" which started airing on the History Channel in 2013, shares a lot of character names and some events with the first two books which were written in 2004 and 2006.

Woodsman · August 2017

"Hominids" by Robert Sawyer.

Woodsman · August 2017

Fred Saberhagen "The Face of Apollo"

motie2 · August 2017

@Woodsman -- Ah, Saberhagen, Father of the Berserkers!!!

motie2 · August 2017

The well respected Muttnchop Piper offers his suggestions for reading material whilst pipe smoking:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUCK-Febp4I

ghostsofpompeii · August 2017

I'm currently reading the back of a Lucky Charms cereal box. By the way, did you know they were magically delicious?

motie2 · August 2017

"What's in the pipe that he's smoking?" ~ Arlo Guthrie

RobmanMT · September 2017

Civil War Buff so generally books on that subject, specifically on Southern figures and events being as im from the south (TN).

What are you reading whilst smoking (other than This Pipe Life)

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